Born in 1968 in Xiantang, China, Mao Yan lives and works in Nanjin. A member of the Chinese neo-realism movement, he established his reputation with his portraits, their grey hues seeming to barely brush the canvas, ephemeral and tinged with light like the glow of infinite and hidden potential. Mao Yan does not see his work as a form of representation, but a way of exploring the relationship between the spiritual nature of art and its technical aspects.

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